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Urban heritage, which is part of the conceptual expansion of
cultural heritage, has become an extraordinarily complex notion.
Any aspect of urban life and experience can become heritage and
this heritage is then continuously re-interpreted and exploited as
a source not only for a city's identification, but also for its
cultural and economic innovation. This book provides a detailed
overview of Central European urban heritage. It examines the key
aspects of urban heritage - tangible/monumental, natural/landscape,
world heritage/urban quarter and heritage experience/dark heritage.
The 'regimes of urban heritage' approach retraces two hundred years
of the development of European urban heritage to understand how it
has become so significant and how it could integrate practically
every area of urban existence. The novelty of the book is the
interpretation of this development as a process of successive and
integrating regimes, which are examined through the changing urban
heritage agency and discourse. Through the examples of European
cities and towns, such as Belgrade, Budapest, Gdansk, Krakow,
Ljubljana, Subotica, Szentendre, Vienna, but also Edinburgh, Nordic
cities and Rome, these changes reveal their inner complexities and
become comparable in an interdisciplinary analysis. Further, a
particular aspect of the history of these cities is revealed
through the development of their own urban heritage. The book is
primarily aimed at academics, researchers and postgraduate students
of cultural and economic geography, cultural history, culture and
heritage management, modern and contemporary history as well as
urban history, planning and sociology.
This book uses the Historic Urban Landscape - the most recently
codified notion of international urban heritage conservation - to
demonstrate why it is necessary to demarcate history from cultural
heritage and what consequences the increasing popularity of the
latter have on history. It also demonstrates how the history of
cultural heritage can be constructed as a historical problem.
First, the conceptual history of urban heritage preservation -
based on the standard setting instruments of international
organizations - reveals the fundamental elements of the current
concept of urban heritage. Second, this concept, as worded in the
HUL approach, is investigated through the analysis of Vienna, which
played a crucial role in the establishment of HUL. These examples
are used to to show how the evolution of cultural heritage can be
constructed as a historical problem.
This book uses the Historic Urban Landscape - the most recently
codified notion of international urban heritage conservation - to
demonstrate why it is necessary to demarcate history from cultural
heritage and what consequences the increasing popularity of the
latter have on history. It also demonstrates how the history of
cultural heritage can be constructed as a historical problem.
First, the conceptual history of urban heritage preservation -
based on the standard setting instruments of international
organizations - reveals the fundamental elements of the current
concept of urban heritage. Second, this concept, as worded in the
HUL approach, is investigated through the analysis of Vienna, which
played a crucial role in the establishment of HUL. These examples
are used to to show how the evolution of cultural heritage can be
constructed as a historical problem.
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